Art 1 Ã⧠19 of the Constitution of the State of Texas

CONSTITUTION OF THE State OF TEXAS.

PREAMBLE

Nosotros, the people of the State of Texas, acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace of God, in permitting us to make pick of our form of government, do ordain and constitute this Constitution:

Article I.

Bill of Rights.

That the full general, great and essential principles of Liberty and Free Government may be recognised and established, we declare, that--

["Department 1. All political ability is inherent in the people, and all gratis governments are founded on their dominance, and instituted for their benefit' and they have at all times the inalienable right to modify, reform or abolish their course of government, in such manner as they may recall expedient; and, therefore, no government or potency can exist or practice power within the State of Texas, without the consent of the people thereof previously given; nor later on that consent be withdrawn."]

NOTE.--The Convention having ordered the address of the committee, (Messrs. Lea, Brown and Stell,) together with the Constitution of the Amalgamated States of America, to be printed under the supervision of the undersigned, after the banishment of that trunk, the Land Senate later on directed that the Ordinances of the Convention and the Country Constitution, as amended, should exist printed therewith, under the similar supervision. I have, therefore, inserted in brackets, [" "] all the amendments at their appropriate places, and omitted, as obsolete, those sections incidental merely to the transition of government in 1815-6. JOHN HENRY Brownish, Chairman Committee. Austin, Apr 1st, 1861.

SEC. 2. All freemen, when they grade a social compact, have equal rights; and no man, or set up of men, is entitled to exclusive separate public emoluments or privileges, but in consideration of public services.

SEC. 3. No religious test shall ever be required every bit a qualification to any function or public trust in this Land.

SEC. four. All men have a natural and indefensible right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man shall be compelled to attend, erect, or support whatsoever place of worship, or to maintain whatsoever ministry confronting his consent; no human authorization ought, in whatsoever case whatever, to control or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion; and no preference shall ever be given past law to any religious societies or mode of worship. But it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such laws as may be necessary to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of their own manner of public worship.

SEC. 5. Every citizen shall be at liberty to speak, write or publish his opinions on any subject area, beingness responsible for the abuse of that privilege; and no law shall always be passed curtailing the liberty of spoken language or of the press.

SEC. half dozen. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official bear of officers, or men in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public data, the truth thereof my be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libel, the jury shall have the right to make up one's mind the law and the facts, under the management of the court, as in other cases.

SEC. seven. The people shall exist secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable seizures or searches; and no warrant to search whatever place, or to seize any person or thing, shall issue, without describing them every bit near as may be, nor without probably cause supported past oath or affirmation.

SEC. 8. In all criminal prosecutions, the defendant shall have a speedy public trial, past an impartial jury; he shall not be compelled to give show against himself; he shall have the correct of being heard by himself or counsel, or both; shall be confronted with the witnesses against him, and shall accept compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and no person shall be holden to answer for any criminal charge, but on indictment or information, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or offences confronting the laws regulating the militia.

SEC. 9. All prisoners shall be bailable past sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, when the proof is evident or the presumption is great; but this provision shall not be so construed equally to prohibit bail after indictment institute, upon examination of the evidence by a Approximate of the Supreme or Commune Court, upon the return of a writ of habeas corpus, returnable in the county where the offence is committed.

SEC. 10. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, except when in case of rebellion or invasion the public safety may crave it.

SEC. xi. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted. All courts shall be open up, and every person, for an injury washed him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall accept remedy by due course of law.

SEC. 12. No person, for the same offence, shall be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall a person exist again put upon trial for the aforementioned offence after a verdict of not guilty; and the right of trial past jury shall remain inviolate.

SEC. thirteen. Every denizen shall have the right to keep and deport arms, in the lawful defence of himself or the State.

SEC. 14. No neb of attainder, ex post facto law retroactive law, or whatever law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be made, and no person's property shall be taken or applied to public utilize, without adequate compensation being made, unless by the consent of such person.

SEC. xv. No person shall every be imprisoned for debt.

SEC. sixteen.No citizen of this State shall be deprived of life, liberty, property, or privileges, outlawed, exiled, or in whatsoever manner disfranchised, except by due course of the law of the land.

SEC. 17. The military shall at all times exist subordinate to the civil authority.

SEC. xviii. Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free authorities, and shall never be allowed; nor shall the law of primogeniture or entailments e'er be in force in this State.

SEC. 19. The citizens shall have the right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for their mutual skillful, and to utilize to those invested with the powers of regime, for redress of grievances, or other purposes, past petition, address, or remonstrance.

SEC. 20. No ability of suspending laws in this State shall be exercised, except past the Legislature, or its dominance.

SEC. 21. To baby-sit confronting transgressions of the loftier powers herein delegated, nosotros declare that everything in this "Nib of Rights" is excepted out of the general powers of the government, and shall for ever remain inviolate, and all laws contrary thereto, or to the post-obit provisions, shall be void.

(Transcription, errors in original preserved)

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